Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/26

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Nikon S3 millennium
From: John Collier <jbcollier@home.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 14:14:38 -0700

According to Stephan Gandy's site, the last SPs had titanium curtains.

John Collier

> From: "Frank Filippone" <red735i@earthlink.net>

> 
> I remember the M series, and the S, S2, S3 and S4 all had cloth shutters,
> but I remember that the SP had the "new" shutter material....I could be
> wrong.....
> 
> I gotta go look this one up at the Nikon Site in the UK......or does anyone
> own a copy of Rogalatti/Rotolini/?  Some Italian surname or Peter Dechert's
> version  that wrote the definittive book on Nikon RF look it up for me?
> 
> Better yet, can someone that owns a SP go look at the shutter material and
> comment.... I never had one of these bodies, so I don;t know from first hand
> experience....
> 
> Frank
> 
> 
> Nikon went to the titanium shutter curtains with the F. The Nikon RFs
> were all cloth shuttered, like the Leicas.
> 
> Godfrey
> 
>